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Terms and Conditions

Effective Date: October 7, 2026
Last Updated: October 7, 2026

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of ibuyhouseswithfiredamageaustin.com (the “Website”) and services offered through the Website by I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Austin (“we,” “us,” or “our”).

By accessing the Website, submitting property information, requesting an offer, or otherwise interacting with our services, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy.

1. Purpose of the Website

The Website allows property owners and authorized representatives to submit information concerning real estate they may wish to sell, including:

Depending on the property and transaction, we may:

Nothing displayed on the Website constitutes a binding offer to purchase real estate.

2. Direct Purchase Model

The Website expressly states that we focus on direct purchases and describes the transaction as involving no middleman.

Where we seek to purchase property for our own account:

3. Our Role

Depending on the transaction, we may act as:

Our actual role depends on the transaction documents and conduct.

Unless separately and lawfully established, we do not act as your:

4. No Obligation to Sell

Submitting property information or requesting an offer does not obligate you to sell.

A Website form is an inquiry and is not a purchase agreement.

You may reject a proposed offer unless and until you enter into a legally enforceable transaction agreement, subject to applicable statutory or contractual rights.

5. No Obligation to Purchase

Submitting property information does not require us to:

6. Eligibility and Authority

By using the Website or submitting property information, you represent that:

Submission by one co-owner does not necessarily establish authority to bind every owner.

7. Agents, Wholesalers, and Other Representatives

The Website’s property form expressly allows a submitter to indicate that the submitter is:

A person submitting information as an agent, wholesaler, contract holder, attorney-in-fact, trustee, personal representative, or other representative is responsible for having lawful authority to do so.

Nothing on the Website authorizes:

8. Property Research

We may research:

9. Property Assessments

The Website says offers are based on evaluation of property condition and fire damage.

An acquisition evaluation may include:

An evaluation conducted for our acquisition purposes is not automatically an inspection or professional report performed for the seller’s benefit and is not a warranty concerning property condition.

10. Website “No Inspections” Advertising

The Website presently advertises “no inspections.”

That statement should be understood as meaning the seller may not be required to arrange, finance, or satisfy a conventional retail-buyer inspection process.

It does not mean that:

Indeed, the Website itself states that our team evaluates the property before determining an offer.

11. Preliminary Offers

Any preliminary:

is non-binding unless incorporated into an enforceable written transaction agreement.

A preliminary offer may change following due diligence.

12. Offer Methodology

Potential offers may take into account:

No particular valuation method, purchase price, or investment result is guaranteed.

13. “Fair,” “Competitive,” and “True Value” Claims

The Website describes offers as fair and competitive.

Those statements describe intended marketing characteristics and do not guarantee that:

The executed purchase agreement controls the actual price.

14. Binding Transactions

A binding real estate transaction arises only when applicable parties execute legally enforceable transaction documents.

Closing may depend on:

15. Texas Seller’s Disclosure Notice

Texas Property Code § 5.008 generally requires the seller of residential real property containing not more than one dwelling unit to provide the purchaser with the statutory Seller’s Disclosure Notice or a substantially similar written notice containing the required information, subject to statutory exemptions.

A direct cash or investor purchase is not automatically exempt merely because:

16. Scope Is Not Every Property Type

Texas § 5.008 does not apply identically to every property advertised on this Website.

For example, the statutory section is specifically framed around qualifying residential real property containing not more than one dwelling unit.

Multi-unit buildings, commercial properties, vacant land, condominiums, executory contracts, homeowners-association properties, and other transactions may involve different or additional disclosure requirements.

The applicable law should be determined for the actual property.

17. Timing of the Texas Seller’s Disclosure

For a covered transaction, the Seller’s Disclosure Notice generally must be delivered to the purchaser on or before the effective date of the executory contract binding the purchaser to purchase the property.

Providing the notice before execution is often the cleanest operational approach.

18. Seven-Day Termination Right for Late Disclosure

If a covered purchase contract is entered without the required Seller’s Disclosure Notice having been timely provided, the purchaser generally may terminate the contract for any reason within seven days after receiving the notice.

Nothing in these Website Terms shortens that statutory right.

19. “Previous Fires” Is Expressly on the Texas Form

Texas’s statutory Seller’s Disclosure Notice expressly lists:

Previous Fires

as a condition requiring disclosure where applicable.

The form requires the seller to explain qualifying “yes” answers.

Fire damage therefore is expressly contemplated by Texas’s statutory seller-disclosure form.

20. Other Fire-Related Disclosure Categories

A structure fire may also affect disclosure concerning:

A seller should answer the statutory form truthfully based on the seller’s knowledge.

21. Disclosure Is Not a Warranty

The Texas Seller’s Disclosure Notice states that it concerns the seller’s knowledge of property condition as of the date signed.

It is not:

The purchase agreement separately determines contractual representations and remedies.

22. Seller Disclosure Exemptions

Texas provides specific exemptions from § 5.008.

Depending on the facts, exemptions can include certain:

An exemption should be verified rather than assumed.

23. No Universal Fire-Document Package

Texas does not impose one universal rule requiring every residential seller automatically to deliver every:

to every buyer.

A particular document may nevertheless be:

24. As-Is Transactions

The Website advertises purchase in the property’s existing or “as-is” condition.

“As-is” may mean the purchaser does not require the seller to perform repairs before closing.

It does not automatically eliminate:

25. No Universal Requirement to Repair Before Sale

Texas does not impose one statewide rule requiring every fire-damaged residence to be fully repaired before sale.

A damaged property may potentially be transferred as-is.

Separate:

may nevertheless affect the property.

26. Austin Fire-Damage Repair Permits

The City of Austin maintains a specific emergency repair process for fire and smoke damage.

For fire-damage repair where:

Austin may route the project through its emergency/Express Building Permit process.

27. Permit Required Before Debris Removal and Structural Build-Back

For qualifying fire-damage structural repair, Austin states that a building permit is required to:

Accordingly, the Website’s statement that we handle cleanup should not be interpreted as permission to begin structural demolition or reconstruction without required permits.

28. Austin Express Permit Documentation

Austin’s current Express Permit process requires specified documents for qualifying fire or vehicle damage repair, including:

These are Austin permit-application documents.

They should not be misrepresented as a universal package that every seller must give every cash buyer.

29. Layout Changes Require Different Review

Austin’s Express Permit pathway for fire-damage repair assumes the existing floor plan is maintained.

If the reconstruction changes the floor plan or involves broader redevelopment, the appropriate full-review application may be required.

30. Gas, Electrical, Plumbing, and Mechanical Work

Fire damage can affect regulated trade systems.

Where required, qualifying:

must be performed under the appropriate permits and by appropriately authorized persons.

A property purchase does not eliminate those requirements.

31. Austin’s Current Building and Fire Codes

Austin’s current technical codes include locally amended versions of the:

Those codes became locally effective July 10, 2025.

Repair or reconstruction should comply with the code applicable to the actual project.

32. Floodplain, Historic, and Other Review

Austin notes that emergency and Express Permit timing can differ where property is:

A fast cash acquisition should therefore not assume that every fire-damaged property can be reconstructed through the same permit pathway.

33. Demolition

Where the investment plan involves total demolition or qualifying substantial partial demolition rather than in-kind fire repair, Austin’s separate demolition permitting requirements may apply.

Depending on the project, those requirements can involve:

34. Cleanup and Debris Removal

The Website says we handle cleanup and logistics.

Any cleanup involving:

must comply with applicable permit, licensing, worker-safety, environmental, and disposal requirements.

Nothing in these Terms represents that we personally perform regulated contractor or remediation work unless lawfully authorized.

35. Contractors

Where Texas or Austin law requires a licensed or registered trade contractor, appropriately qualified persons should perform the regulated work.

The seller is not required to assume that our status as a prospective purchaser makes us a licensed:

36. Inspections and Due Diligence

A direct cash transaction does not prevent the purchaser from conducting due diligence permitted by the purchase agreement.

Due diligence may include:

37. Fast Offers and Closing Claims

The Website states that:

These statements describe intended or possible transaction structures and are not guarantees.

Actual timing may depend on:

38. No Agent Commissions and Fees

The Website advertises no traditional agent commissions and no hidden fees.

Where the seller completes a genuine direct transaction without a listing broker, a conventional listing commission may not apply.

If a licensed Texas real estate professional participates, compensation obligations will be determined by applicable:

Any promise that the buyer will pay specified closing expenses is governed by the actual written transaction documents.

39. Texas Real Estate Licensing

Texas generally requires an appropriate license where a person performs regulated brokerage activities for another person for compensation or expected compensation.

The actual relationship and conduct control.

A genuine purchaser acting solely for its own account is differently situated from a person acting as an intermediary or broker for another.

40. Equitable Interests May Be Sold or Assigned Without a License Under Defined Conditions

Texas specifically provides that a person may acquire:

and then sell the option or assign the contractual interest without holding a real estate license if:

  1. The person does not use the option or contract to engage in real estate brokerage; and
  2. The required written disclosures concerning the nature of the equitable interest are made.

This is a limited statutory pathway, not a blanket exemption from real estate licensing law.

41. Required Equitable-Interest Disclosure to a Potential Buyer

Before entering into a contract to sell an option or assign an interest in a purchase contract, Texas law requires written disclosure to the potential buyer that:

42. Required Disclosure to the Property Owner

Texas law also requires written disclosure to the property owner that the contract holder intends to:

A planned assignment therefore should not be concealed from the owner where the statute requires disclosure.

43. Failure to Disclose Can Become Brokerage Activity

Texas’s licensing statute provides that a person who sells or offers to sell an option or assigns or offers to assign a purchase-contract interest without making the required equitable-interest disclosure is engaging in real estate brokerage.

The disclosure requirement is therefore materially tied to licensing compliance.

44. Contractual or Equitable Interest Is Not Legal Title

Holding a:

is different from holding record legal title.

A contract holder should not falsely state that:

45. Assignment Depends on the Contract

Texas’s equitable-interest statutes do not override the terms of the underlying purchase agreement.

Whether a purchase agreement may be assigned also depends on:

46. Website Direct-Buyer Representation

The Website expressly states that it focuses on direct purchases.

If a particular transaction is instead intended from the outset to be assigned or wholesaled, required equitable-interest disclosures should be given and the transaction documentation should accurately describe the actual role.

The Website should not promise a direct end-buyer transaction and then conceal a materially different assignment structure.

47. Foreclosure and Financial Distress

The Website may attract homeowners who are:

We are not your:

unless a separate legally compliant relationship expressly establishes otherwise.

48. Texas Foreclosure Consulting Law

Texas separately regulates certain compensated residential foreclosure consulting services under Business & Commerce Code Chapter 21.

A person can become a foreclosure consultant when, for compensation, the person represents that services will:

49. Foreclosure Consulting Contract Must Be Written

Where Chapter 21 applies, the foreclosure-consulting contract generally must be:

The required statutory foreclosure-consultant notice must also be given before the consulting contract is entered.

50. Texas Foreclosure Consultant Cancellation Right

Texas’s statutory foreclosure-consultant notice tells the homeowner that the homeowner may cancel or rescind the foreclosure-consulting contract at any time, without penalty of any kind, subject to the statute’s provisions concerning repayment of specified money actually spent on the homeowner’s behalf.

This is different from a generic three-day investor-purchase cancellation period.

51. Foreclosure Consultant Cannot Demand a Transfer to Itself

Texas’s required statutory notice specifically warns that a covered foreclosure consultant or its associate cannot ask the homeowner to sign a document transferring an interest in the residence to the consultant or associate.

Accordingly, a business seeking to acquire a home directly should not simultaneously structure itself as the seller’s compensated foreclosure consultant in a manner prohibited by Chapter 21.

52. Foreclosure Consultant Compensation

A covered foreclosure consultant generally may not receive compensation until all promised consulting services have been fully performed unless the consultant satisfies the statute’s permitted surety-bond or surety-account alternative.

Consideration received from a third party in connection with consulting services must also be disclosed as required.

53. Other Foreclosure-Consultant Restrictions

A covered foreclosure consultant generally may not:

54. Direct Purchase Versus Foreclosure Consulting

An ordinary bona fide purchase for the buyer’s own account should remain operationally distinct from a paid foreclosure-consulting relationship.

Transaction personnel should not blur those roles by:

55. Requesting an Offer Does Not Stop Foreclosure

Submitting a Website inquiry, receiving an offer, or negotiating a purchase does not automatically:

Homeowners facing foreclosure should independently determine applicable deadlines.

56. No Foreclosure-Rescue Guarantees

Unless separately authorized and legally qualified, we do not represent that:

57. Federal Mortgage-Assistance Rules

Where separate conduct constitutes mortgage-assistance-relief services under federal law, additional requirements may regulate:

58. Executory Contracts Are Different Transactions

Texas imposes extensive special rules on qualifying executory contracts for conveyance of residential property, including contract-for-deed and certain lease-option structures.

Those rules can include:

An ordinary cash deed closing should not be confused with an executory contract.

59. Fourteen-Day Cancellation Right for Certain Executory Contracts

Where Texas Property Code Subchapter D applies to a covered executory contract for residential property, the purchaser generally may cancel the executory contract for any reason within 14 days after the contract date.

That rule concerns the purchaser under the qualifying executory contract.

It is not a general 14-day cancellation right for a homeowner selling property to a cash investor.

60. Probate, Estate, Trust, and Inherited Property

Submitting inherited, probate, estate, or trust property does not establish legal authority to sell.

A transaction may require:

Certain fiduciary transfers may qualify for exemptions from § 5.008, but an exemption should be confirmed.

61. Insurance Claims and Fire-Damage Proceeds

A fire-damaged property may involve an open or completed insurance claim.

We do not act as your:

unless a separate legally compliant relationship expressly establishes otherwise.

Property owners are responsible for understanding:

62. Insurance Payout Information

The Website’s property form asks whether the homeowner received an insurance payout.

We may consider that information during property and transaction evaluation.

Providing insurance-payout information does not mean that:

63. Pending Insurance Claims

If property is sold while an insurance claim remains pending, the transaction documents should address the parties’ respective rights concerning:

64. Public Adjusting

Nothing on the Website constitutes public-adjusting services.

A homeowner seeking assistance negotiating an insurance claim should work with an appropriately licensed professional or attorney where required.

65. Tenant-Occupied Property

Sale of tenant-occupied Texas property does not itself automatically terminate a lawful lease.

A purchaser should evaluate:

Vacant appearance following a fire should not automatically be treated as proof that all tenancy rights ended.

66. Condominiums and Property Owners’ Associations

Separate documents and statutory rights may apply where property is located in:

The parties should evaluate applicable:

67. Federal Lead-Based Paint Disclosure

Federal lead-based-paint disclosure requirements may apply to qualifying residential housing constructed before 1978.

Nothing on the Website replaces applicable federal requirements.

68. Telephone Communications

By providing a telephone number and requesting an offer, you authorize reasonable responsive communications concerning:

Additional consent will be obtained where legally required before regulated automated, prerecorded, artificial-voice, or marketing communications are made.

69. Texas Recording Law

Texas generally permits a private person to record a wire, oral, or electronic communication where:

provided the interception is not made for an unlawful purpose.

Because an interstate call may involve a jurisdiction requiring consent from all parties, additional notice or consent may be appropriate.

Where another applicable law is stricter, the stricter requirement controls.

70. Text Messages

If you provide a mobile telephone number and applicable consent, we may communicate by text concerning:

Where required, additional consent will be obtained before regulated automated or marketing messages are sent.

Consent to marketing communications is not a condition of receiving an offer or selling property where prohibited by law.

Message and data rates may apply.

Message frequency may vary.

Reply STOP to request that applicable messages stop.

71. Email Communications

By providing an email address, you authorize communications concerning:

Applicable promotional emails will include an unsubscribe mechanism.

72. Electronic Communications

Where permitted by law, you consent to receiving Website and transaction communications electronically.

This does not eliminate documents that applicable law requires to be delivered in a specified form or manner.

73. Privacy

Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.

74. Independent Decision-Making

Selling fire-damaged real estate can have significant:

You may wish to consult:

75. No Professional Advice

Website content does not constitute individualized:

76. No Automatic Agency or Fiduciary Relationship

Use of the Website does not itself create:

Where a licensed Texas real estate professional participates, applicable brokerage and representation documents control.

77. Acceptable Use

You may not:

78. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the Website and its original:

are owned by or licensed to I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Austin.

You may not commercially reproduce protected Website content without authorization.

79. Third-Party Websites and Services

We do not control or accept responsibility for independent third-party:

80. Website Availability

We may modify, restrict, suspend, or discontinue Website features.

Continuous, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free availability is not guaranteed.

81. No Guarantee of Transaction

We do not guarantee:

82. Testimonials

Testimonials displayed on the Website describe individual reported experiences.

They do not guarantee that another seller will receive:

83. Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE WEBSITE AND WEBSITE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”

WE DISCLAIM WARRANTIES THAT MAY LAWFULLY BE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF:

Nothing in these Terms eliminates rights that applicable law does not permit to be waived.

84. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, I BUY HOUSES WITH FIRE DAMAGE AUSTIN AND ITS AFFILIATES, OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND BUSINESS PARTNERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING SOLELY FROM WEBSITE USE.

OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS ARISING SOLELY FROM WEBSITE USE WILL NOT EXCEED $500, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

This Website-only limitation does not govern rights or liabilities under separately executed:

unless those documents expressly provide otherwise and applicable law permits it.

85. Independent Third Parties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for independent third-party:

Nothing in this provision eliminates liability that applicable law does not permit to be excluded.

86. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Austin from claims arising from your:

87. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, except where another law must apply.

88. Venue and Disputes

Subject to mandatory jurisdiction, venue, consumer-protection, foreclosure, and transaction-specific requirements, proceedings arising solely from Website use may be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Texas.

These Website Terms do not impose mandatory arbitration.

A separately executed transaction agreement may contain different enforceable dispute provisions.

89. Non-Waivable Texas Rights

Nothing in these Terms waives rights that cannot legally be waived under applicable:

90. Transaction Agreements Control

These Website Terms do not replace:

A separately executed transaction agreement governs that transaction to the extent enforceable.

91. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms periodically.

Updated Terms become effective when posted or on another identified effective date, subject to applicable law.

92. Severability

If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent or severed, and the remaining provisions will remain effective.

93. No Waiver

Failure to enforce a provision does not waive the right to enforce it later.

94. Assignment

You may not assign these Website Terms without our written consent.

We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, affiliate reorganization, or sale of assets, subject to applicable law.

This provision does not determine whether a real estate purchase agreement may be assigned.

Assignment of a purchase agreement is governed by:

95. Entire Agreement Regarding Website Use

These Terms and the Privacy Policy govern Website use.

They do not supersede separately executed real estate transaction documents.

96. Contact Us

Questions concerning these Terms may be directed to:

I Buy Houses With Fire Damage Austin
Austin, Texas
United States

Website: ibuyhouseswithfiredamageaustin.com